Who can remember the great and wonderful portable darkroom. Taping the black plastic on the bathroom door, developing your film in the sink, hanging your film from the shower curtain rod, drying with a hair dryer, sitting up the enlarger on the top of the toilet, printing in the bath tube and best of all when you were so close to the deadline you printed wet negatives. Then came the clean up...pour it all down the drain. I’m sure the next day housekeeping really want to know what were strange stains were in the tub.
Oh! I almost forgot you had to transmit and hope you didn’t get a hit on the line because then you heard the picture editor or whoever say, "You need to start over. Got a hit can’t use it.”
Oh! Don’t you miss it?
4 comments:
Do you remember when we got hired just because we "could make a dark room out of a hollowed-out oak tree?"
That gave real meaning to the term "Road Warrior." Oh, my aching back!
Dale Young
Senior Staff Photographer, The Detroit News
Oh my gosh, Odell.
I didn't see that.
I can almost smell the developer and fixer when I look at those photos.
It brings back great memories of football games at Mizzou for me.
After all that work, the photos would run 2-3 columns and all out of register!
You should send a link to B3, Forbes and Rack :-)
Thanks for the memories!
Jerry Naunheim
That's why we appreciate computers more than those who never smelled like fixer!
Mary Butkus
Nice job bringing back the memories. It took us longer to set up and tear down than it did to take the pictures. I would book hotels based on who had the smallest windows to tape up, phones that didn't go through the switchboard and preferably first floor so I wouldn't have to wait on the elevator on deadline. They didn't call them Road Warrior Kits for nothing.
Thanks Odell,
John Sleezer
just another Photographer,
The Kansas City Star
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